Jason Moyer on 1/7/2021 at 16:27
Vlad is going to bankrupt me. Also, apparently Dreadbox mentioned something on instagram about releasing a new polysynth. Missing out on the Abyss is one of my few consumer regrets.
[video=youtube;uwhWwBGvfV0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwhWwBGvfV0[/video]
faetal on 1/7/2021 at 16:47
Very cool. Would be amazing if they built it with midi CC / NRPN mapped to each control point that you could use to control other stuff with.
Jason Moyer on 1/7/2021 at 22:50
Yeah, I have no idea if it has MPE or what kinds of MIDI or extended MIDI or whatever it sends/receives. There is a long description of it on their website, but as with most of Vlad's inventions I don't really understand any of it because I'm not an insane psyber shaman.
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https://somasynths.com/reflex/)
Aja on 7/7/2021 at 03:18
Love it. You've got either the basis for an ambient album or the entire album itself.
Being productive on modular is really hard for me too. I love fooling around with it, but I barely get anything done. I've got hundreds of snippets recorded; most will never make it onto a track.
faetal on 7/7/2021 at 13:32
Quote Posted by Aja
Love it. You've got either the basis for an ambient album or the entire album itself.
Being productive on modular is really hard for me too. I love fooling around with it, but I barely get anything done. I've got hundreds of snippets recorded; most will never make it onto a track.
Thanks!
I've chopped it into 16 distinct sections which will form the basis for some tracks. It's not a bad way to write (assuming it results in anything usable) - you can get some really good abstract moods which can inspire the rest of a track, without having to sit down and engage in overt musical productivity.
(I'll keep telling myself this anyway)
Jason Moyer on 25/7/2021 at 03:29
Here's another bizarre SOMA instrument finally coming out that I had completely forgotten about (I think he last showed it like 2-3 years ago).
[video=youtube;nWCo1J46t5A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWCo1J46t5A[/video]
demagogue on 25/7/2021 at 11:01
Hell of a demo.
I think we can safely say Vlad the Soma guy has all but cornered the synth-as-ritual-object market. Each thing he's released has been venturing further down that road, and this seems to jump headlong into it. It's kind of interesting... Buchla and the west coast crew had already played with taking synths in that direction back in the LSD-fueled '60s when I guess it would have been taken for granted. But it was never really developed, and the synthpop era kind of killed off the whole idea of it, to say nothing of the cryo-freeze of modular synthesis (or synths without keyboards) for a few decades there.
But I feel like Vlad's the one person that not only understood what they were going for in a deep way, but he's managed to reinvent the whole idea in his own bizarro way that's captured the essence of it like even those '60s cats couldn't quite grasp on to. He's made synths where you can feel good getting into some really psychedelic sounds better than almost anything else, and call it a spiritual experience or whatever you want to call it.
faetal on 25/7/2021 at 13:49
I guess the Strega doesn't seem so out there now.
Aja on 25/7/2021 at 19:25
Lately I've been thinking I should sell all my modular and get a Super 6 or something similar. I probably won't, but it's fun to consider. I want to start thinking about how I could do a live set now that venues are opening up, and the one thing I do know is that I don't want to be patching onstage.
faetal on 26/7/2021 at 12:18
I can understand that.
I have periodic bouts of thinking I should all of my hardware synths and just write using VSTs.
It would liberate well over €10k, eliminate a load of cabling and streamline my workflow a lot.
All I would lose would be the aesthetics and inspirational factor / happy accident potential of lots of knob twiddling.
The Super 6 does look lovely. Arturia Polybrute is also gorgeous.